Persuaded?

~ One Effort Yields Three Responses ~

We Persuade Men (the witness)  ~  “Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.  Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences” (2 Corinthians 5:9-11). 

There are three common results from our efforts to persuade men, women, boys, and girls about the One who is the [only] Way, the [source of all] Truth, and the [only path to eternal life with God] Life (John 14:6).

Never Persuaded (the hardened)  ~  As He was looking forward to the Cross of Calvary Jesus said, “But He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead’” (Luke 16:31). 

Almost Persuaded (the procrastinator)  ~  “Then Agrippa said to Paul, ‘You almost persuade me to become a Christian’” (Acts 26:28).  note: This is has the same end result as being never persuaded.

I Am Persuaded (the Christian)  ~  “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:37-39). 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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